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Terrible narrator!!!!

Revisado: 12-12-22

The story is classic Spenser, but ruined by the awful narration. I thought David duke was the pits, but this guy is worse.

AUDIBLE! PLEASE!! Re-record the middle books in this series with Joe Mantegna narrating!

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Great story, lousy narrator

Revisado: 11-04-22

Please, please, please! Will somebody convince Joe Mantegna or Michael Prichard to do new recordings of the mid list Spenser novels? The guy who read this book gives Susan and Hawk the most bizarre voices you can imagine. It’s just awful to listen to a good story being mangled by bad narration.

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Great story, terrible narrator

Revisado: 07-15-22

I love Spencer novels, when narrated by Michael Prichard or Joe Mantegna there’s no better listening. Unfortunately this book is narrated by some guy named David Dukes who gets it 100% wrong. His interpretation of Hawk is especially painful. I dearly wish there was an alternative recording of this book.

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Tedious

Revisado: 05-14-21

I keep forgetting that when you see the word ‘satire’ used to describe a book these days what it generally means is not the rapier wit of previous eras but instead a painfully overworked story populated by unpleasant characters. The ‘daily deal’ blurb made me hope for subversive, what I got was sophomoric. Returning it.

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Difficult to hear/understand

Revisado: 10-03-20

This is one of those times when the narrator is working too hard at creating different voices/accents for the various characters, with the end result being a book that is so difficult to hear/ understand that it turns listeners away. Combine this with a lackluster story and you will understand the 2 stars I have selected.

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Annoying

Revisado: 10-27-19

I heard Ms Bardugo interviewed about this book and was eager to hear more... unfortunately her description of the book turned out to be far more interesting and well-crafted than the book itself. This is one of those modern mysteries in which instead of building tension and curiosity through the deft interweaving of real clues and false suggestions as the story unfolds the author instead flip flops back and forth between past and present, constantly referring to some BIG IMPORTANT THING that has already happened - and upon which so many things hinge!!! but not telling you what that is. This is not suspense, this is tedium. Also disappointed to find yet another contemporary novel with a female lead who must constantly make poor decisions in order for the plot of unfold. And finally - why oh why did the female narrator elect to make the 'voice' she uses for Dawes 50% softer/quieter than every other character? The effect was that we had to choose between missing pretty much everything that character said or continually turning the volume up and down and going back to re-listen. Ugh ugh ugh.

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Tedious

Revisado: 03-28-19

The plot is plodding and banal, meant to be a tense roller coaster, the book is instead an overwrought slog.

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Banal

Revisado: 03-09-19

Thank goodness this was only 2 hours long - it was so painfully predictable I could not have taken another minute. The dialogue - intended to be so quick/flirty/sassy that it engenders a relationship - is instead labored and cheesy

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Scary

Revisado: 01-05-19

The old cliche holds up: truth is stranger than fiction. Bob Woodward shows us that it is also more frightening.

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Poor narration, extra snark

Revisado: 01-05-19

This book and particularly the narration failed to live up to the promise of it's description. There are a few authors out there who are both excellent writers and excellent audiobook narrators, but Mr and Ms. Weinersmith are not among that small group, so the content can be obscured by less than brilliant elocution. Additionally, the Weinersmiths seem to think that the best way to write about complex technology for a lay audience is to use large doses of cuteness and snark. No thank you.

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